My Vonage adapter arrived today!  After work I'm going home and long distance calling all over the place!  I'll put together a report once I do and let you folks at home know how it's working out!
4:46:59 PM  #  

Marriott rolling out high speed internet access in their mid-range hotels. via [Yahoo! Business]
11:45:05 AM  #  

Looks like the more things change, the more they stay the same.  I guess the latest rage in tabloid press, the paparazzi, and reality TV is just more of the same old stuff with some updated technology and methods:

In the conduct of my newspaper, I carefully excluded all libelling
and personal abuse, which is of late years become so disgraceful
to our country.  Whenever I was solicited to insert anything
of that kind, and the writers pleaded, as they generally did,
the liberty of the press, and that a newspaper was like a stagecoach,
in which any one who would pay had a right to a place, my answer was,
that I would print the piece separately if desired, and the author
might have as many copies as he pleased to distribute himself,
but that I would not take upon me to spread his detraction;
and that, having contracted with my subscribers to furnish them
with what might be either useful or entertaining, I could not fill
their papers with private altercation, in which they had no concern,
without doing them manifest injustice.  Now, many of our printers make
no scruple of gratifying the malice of individuals by false accusations
of the fairest characters among ourselves, augmenting animosity
even to the producing of duels; and are, moreover, so indiscreet
as to print scurrilous reflections on the government of neighboring
states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies,
which may be attended with the most pernicious consequences.
These things I mention as a caution to young printers, and that
they may be encouraged not to pollute their presses and disgrace
their profession by such infamous practices, but refuse steadily,
as they may see by my example that such a course of conduct will not,
on the whole, be injurious to their interests.

From Ben Franklin's Autobiography.

10:54:38 AM  #  

More people weigh in on the evilness of BuyMusic.com's licensing restrictions.  via [slashdot.org]

One other thing I just thought of:  Where is the music downloading service for Unix users?  BuyMusic seems to be tied into Windows Media Player, which, in spite of having come a long way is crappy software at best.

9:09:21 AM  #